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Thread #99510 Message #2475289
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
24-Oct-08 - 06:05 PM
Thread Name: Origins: This Old Time Religion (Spiritual/Gospel)
Subject: Lyr Add: This Old Time Religion (Spiritual)
Lyr. Add: THIS OLD TIME RELIGION Fisk Jubilee Singers, 1880
Chorus: Oh! this old time religion, This old time religion, This old time religion, It is good enough for me.
1 It is good for the mourner, It is good for the mourner, It is good for the mourner, It is good enough for me. 2 It will carry you home to heaven, It will carry you home to heaven, It will carry you home to heaven, It is good enough for me. 3 It brought me out of bondage, It brought me out of bondage, It brought me out of bondage, It is good enough for me. 4 It is good when you are in trouble, It is good when you are in trouble, It is good when you are in trouble, It is good enough for me.
No. 36, p. 158, with musical score; J. B. T. Marsh, 1880, "The Story of the Jubilee Singers: with Their Songs." Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Revised edition.
This early spiritual, sung by the Fisk Jubilee Singers in 1870s-1880s, is not yet in the Spirituals Permathread except as a chorus in a thread on Brush Arbor meetings. Title varies; Old Time Religion, Give Me that Old Time Religion, and This Old Time Religion. Several parodies are in Mudcat threads and the DT.